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' T. TAYLOR.

BLASTIG FABRIC.

No. 363,434. Patented Mayf24, 1887.

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WITNESSESI.

i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS TAYLOR, OF CAMDEN, JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO IRVINE O.BEATTY, OF SAME PLACE.

ELASTIC FABRIC.

lSPI-2lCIIFCA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No.'363,434, dated May24,1887.

Application filed May 19, 1896. vSerial No. 202,617. (SpecimenalPatented in England July 2l, 1881, No.3,178, and in Canada May 23, 1882,No. 14,824.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THoMAs TAYLOR, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain,fresiding in the city and county of Camden, State of New 5Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Elastic Fabrics,(for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain, July 21, 1881, No.3,178, and in Canada, May 23, 1882, No.14,824,) which improvement isfully 1o set forth in the following specification and accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of apiece of elastic webbing or fabric embodyl ing my invention. Fig. 2represents a longitudinal section of another form thereof. Fig.

3 represents a longitudinal section thereof in line x Figs. 1 and 2, thebinder and surface threads being omitted. Fig. 4 represents a face view,on a reduced scale, of a piece of elastic webbing orfabric embodying myinvention.

Fig. 5 represents a top View of the edge of the webbing or fabric.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondingparts in the severalfigures.

My invention consists of an elastic webbing or fabric, the noveltywhereof is, first, in the locking of the rubber threads, and, second,the covering of the edges with silk or other material.

Referring to the drawings, Arepresents the weft-thread or filling of thewebbing or fabric, and B the brous warp-threads of the face and back ofthe webbing or fabric. The rubber threads C C' C are cross-woven andextend 35 lengthwise in the direction of the length of the fabric, andare locked together in the following manner: One, C,of the threadspassing at intervals beneath the threads of the iilling and over thecrossing or intersection of the V 4o other two rubber threads, O C", thesame rubber thread, C', being always the under one at each of the saidcrossings. Instead of thread C being rubber, onc'of yarn or othermaterial may be used.

l) represents an edge made of silk or other material, the thread dthereof covering the edge rubber by first passing over vit to the firstbinding-thread. Then it passes back beneath the rubber,{and`then overit, each time going 5o to the first binding-thread.

The manner of manufacturing or making the improved elastic fabrichereinbefore described is as follows: A loom of the character fullydescribed in application of even date herewith, and for which LettersPatent is asked, is used.V 5 5 In the loom therein described areperforated plates or slides, through which the rubber threads pass,instead of being drawn in the ordinary manner. The plates are worked bycams or other agencies at given intervals, by 6o means of which motiontwo of the rubber threads are caused to cross each other, allowing atother intervals another thread, G, of rubber, cotton, or other material,to pass through them. I also employ needle-mails having in the center ofeach a fork or needle, through the eye of which is conveyed the threadG, which is passed over the slides, and on each side of which needle isa'space, allowing the rubber threads CC to alternate-their position 7oat each lateral movement of the perforated plates, the shuttles in theirmotion being passed between the rubber threads C C and the lockthread,whereby the rubber threads are firmly locked by threads passing throughthe mails, and are thus cross-woven in the fabric, whichv latter may beof any design. y

In Fig. 1 is shown a ull terry-twill web having different faces and backthreads, while in Fig. 2 is shown a mock terry or swiss web, 8o one faceof which is like that of the full-twil1 terry, while the back is formedof weft and binding threads.

In weaving the novel edge I employ a catchthread, which is wound upon aspool fixed in the warp-crotch or other convenient place behind theloom'. In a double-shuttle fabric this catch'thread is' passed through aneedle-mail ou the bindershaft, and the shuttles in their motion passaround the catch-threads alter1 V9o nately, whereby the filling in thetop shuttle draws the catch-thread over the edge rubber to the firstbinder-thread, and next the filling in the bottom shuttle draws thecatch-thread underneath the edge rubber, back over it to thebinder-thread.

In a single-shuttle fabric the edge rubberis Worked. two up and twodown, or at given in tervalsfthe catchthread is worked in a similarmanner, following the rubber one pick, the roo a needle while beingsewed in the gussets of shoes-thus rendering the fabric more durable andenabling it to retain'its shape more perfectly; second, the edges aremade fiat and muchsmallerthanif round or terry-edged]7 and,third, thecatch being independent of other threads, silk or other materialstronger or tougher than the body of the web can be em 1 ployed.

Having thus described my invention,v whati I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

VV1. An elastic fabric having sets of cross- Wo'ven threads extendinglengthwise of the fabric, one of said threads binding the others, whichare elastic, to the filling-thread of the fabric, substantiallyasdescribed.

2. An elastic fabric having sets of three cross-Woven threads extendinglengthwise of the fabric, two of which are of rubber or other elasticmaterial, the third thread passing above the crossing of the rubberthreads and below the filling-threads of the fabric, substantially asdescribed.

3. An elasticfabric having an edge formed of a thread passing throughthe ends of the loops of filling-thread and over an edge-rubber strandWhichis outside of the filling-thread, all substantially as described.

THoMAs TAYLOR.,

Witnesses:

JoHN A. WIEDEnsI-IEIM, RoBT. AiToN.

